{"id":536783,"date":"2026-07-07T03:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/536783\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T03:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:18:16","slug":"ireland-lose-loughman-for-japan-clash-wait-on-baloucoune-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/536783\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland lose Loughman for Japan clash, wait on Baloucoune fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland will be \u200cwithout prop Jeremy Loughman due to concussion \u200cand are waiting for news on the \u200bfitness of wing Rob Baloucoune ahead of their second Nations Championship clash \u200bagainst Japan in Newcastle, Australia, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute \u2060Loughman had been on the \u200cfield \u200cfor \u200bonly eight minutes when he was injured in \u2060the epic \u200b33-31 win over \u200bAustralia that opened Ireland\u2019s campaign \u200cin Sydney at the \u200bweekend, and must undergo standard \u2060return-to-play protocols.<\/p>\n<p>Baloucoune was \u2060forced \u200bto sit out that game with a hamstring injury and a decision on his involvement against Japan would be made later in \u200cthe week, officials \u2060confirmed on Monday. Japan defeated Italy 27-10 in Tokyo \u200cin their first fixture.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland coach Andy Farrell \u200bwill name his side \u200bon Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland will be \u200cwithout prop Jeremy Loughman due to concussion \u200cand are waiting for news on the \u200bfitness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-536783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}